002: Setting Goals You Can Actually Achieve
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we continue the focus on achievable goal setting with implementing the second step of the goal setting process. Using the reflections as your foundation, I'll help you get started projecting what you want your goals to be. I will go in-depth and help you customize those goals for yourself. I'll talk about setting SMART goals and how wording your goals makes a difference.
What's in this episode:
• The 3-step process in creating a custom goal achievement map.
• How to bank time to make your goals a priority
• Marshall Goldsmith's $250,000 secret.
• The two most important questions to ask yourself.
Key quote: "Overwhelm is not having too much to do, it's not really knowing where to start"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity. |
| 0:08.2 | Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans. |
| 0:18.2 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply |
| 0:22.0 | register at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this |
| 0:34.4 | is episode two, part two of the anatomy of goal setting. |
| 0:39.0 | Today, we are going to be focusing on setting our goals. |
| 0:43.5 | During episode one, we talked about our why, and we focused on reflection and looking back. |
| 0:49.8 | We talked about why New Year's resolutions don't work, and we did an exercise to help you reflect and review over the last 12 months. |
| 0:58.5 | Now, why did we have you do that? |
| 1:00.6 | The key really is to look backwards so you can move forward, which I know makes almost no sense when I say it out loud, but it's true. |
| 1:09.2 | You really need to know where you're coming from, |
| 1:11.6 | and we're going to be able to look at those reflections and start projecting them forward to |
| 1:16.2 | help us understand where we want our focus to be. We're going to look for the gaps in our reflection. |
| 1:21.7 | We're going to look for the things that we really want to improve upon, and that's going to help |
| 1:25.4 | us figure out where we want our goals to take us because really |
| 1:29.8 | that is what's most important is when you are setting these goals and that's what we're talking about |
| 1:34.5 | today is setting our goals we want to make sure that they are customized and personalized for you |
| 1:41.2 | so let's take a step back just for a second and talk about how you go from |
| 1:46.2 | that reflection process into the process of actually setting the goals. So I go through the exercises |
| 1:53.4 | every year and I'll be happy to share with you about how this worked for me last year. So I'm going to |
| 1:59.5 | be totally honest with you and share with you |
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